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awk did not transform first line
awk '{ FIELDWIDTHS = "8 4 10 12 32 20 15 10 2"; OFS="~"; print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9 }' infile.txt> outfile.txt goal was to insert ~ as a delimiter on a fixed width file where i defined the field widths. This worked great except, for some reason it did not operate on the first line. Can...
